If you believe that you’re fighting the war of Armageddon, who needs a plan for what comes afterwards?
The Trump administration’s war on Iran is reckless and ill-planned, four government officials briefed on the attacks said, reported The Intercept’s Nick Turse on March 5. Even in classified briefings, Trump administration officials laid out no clear vision for the U.S. war on Iran or its aftermath, the sources said. “The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this,” one of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, told Turse. “There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said another. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”
Turse quotes one of the officials telling him that the roots of today’s war go back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which itself was a long-term consequence of the 1953 coup against Mohamed Mossadegh. (Unfortunately, the official leaves out the British role in the coup, attributing it solely to the CIA—ed.) “It could be decades before we know how badly this will affect us. But you can bet it will,” the official said, referencing the lag between the 1953 coup and the 1979 revolution. “People in Iran remember. We do not.”
